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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R

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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Murtaza
	First Name(s)	Husain Bilgrami
	Birth Year	1720
	Death Year	1795?
	Entry	Known as Shekh Allahyar Usmani, or Sani : employed, about 1729 to 1773 under various nobles of India, and shared in their engagements : introduced, about 1776, to Captain Jonathan Scott (q.v.), Persian Secretary to Warren Hastings : appointed one of his munshis : wrote the Hadikat-ul-Akalim, an admirable work, geographical and historical, exceedingly valuable for events of the writer's own period : died about 1795 : described by Sir H. M. Elliot (q.v.) as the accurate Murtaza Husain.

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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each

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